McEwan, Ian
McEwan, Ian ( Russell McEwan ) ( 1948 – ),novelist and short story writer, born in Aldershot, the son of an army NCO, educated at the University of Sussex and later at the University of East Anglia , where he was the first graduate of the new creative writing department. He came to immediate notice with his first short story collections, First Love, Last Rites ( 1975 ), which won the Somerset Maugham Award , and In Between the Sheets ( 1977 ), both of which displayed his gift for the macabre. His first novel, The Cement Garden ( 1978 ), a Gothic story about an orphaned family of children, was followed by The Comfort of Strangers, a tale of sexual menace, set in Venice ( 1981 ), which was adapted for the cinema by Harold Pinter . The Child in Time ( 1987 ) concerns the emotional consequences for a couple whose baby daughter is abducted, and explores notion of time and...
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